Category Archives: EMC

Greenplum 4.1 Community Edition mapreduce demo problem and fix

Posted on July 31, 2012 by brian

The Greenplum 4.1 Community Edition comes with a mapreduce demo that has two parts. Part 1 uses the perl language and it parses multiple apache access_log files Part 2 uses the python language and does a word count in the … Continue reading →

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Greenplum 4.1 Community Edition VM – Getting it to work

Posted on July 31, 2012 by brian

I have recently been playing with the Greenplum 4.1 Community Edition VM available from Greenplum.  EMC has an internal initiative to make all of its “demo’s” as VM’s and I generally agree with this.  I would say that make the … Continue reading →

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Greenplum 4.1 Community Edition on Parallels Desktop

Posted on July 10, 2012 by brian

Greenplum released Community Edition 4.1 which is a great free VM appliance you can run to get your feet wet with Greenplum and gain an understanding of what it can offer.  Unfortunately it was only released to work on VMware … Continue reading →

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EMC Cloud Architect – ITaaS Expert Achieved!

Posted on May 25, 2012 by brian

My journey to Cloud Architect ITaaS Expert has taken longer than many of my other EMC Certifications.  After all, it is an Expert level EMC certification and to that point my first.  I was one of the first people outside … Continue reading →

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EMC Celerra (5.6) Group/Role Mapping Frustration

Posted on December 13, 2011 by brian

When EMC re-did their group/role mappings for Celerra Administrative Roles, back in 2008 or so (When DART 5.6 was released), they had a chance to create a new set of group/roles that totally make sense.  And for the most part … Continue reading →

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